Flight From Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany (Book 3 of 4)
delany’s 1980s fantasyland crumbles into the stark realities of the AIDS crisis – an arguably perfect example of its type
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Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
it is human to cringe at the elevator pitch – a post-apocalyptic Shakespeare troupe (eww) – but don’t be put off, this is essentially a 2010s Infinite Jest (the good bits)
POETRY MONTH: Lyme by Jared A. Carnie
some great love poetry surrounded by trepidatious discussion of someone else’s illness
Death In Venice by Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann, Thomas Mann, Thomas Mann, What A Very Thom Man
Compass by Mathias Enard
A beautiful novel for an ugly world.
The Plague by Albert Camus
Albert Camus was (according to the blurb of this 1960s Penguin edition) active in the French resistance during the NaziContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 